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Please take these notices home with you
Every week
(at St Peter's unless stated otherwise)
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Welcome
PLEASE NOTE: THERE MAY BE CHANGES OVER THE
CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR HOLIDAY PERIOD.
Monday &
Friday
10.00 am Parents' Pop-in
Tuesday
9.45 am
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to the
Parish of St Peter with
St Margaret, Rochester
Coffee Shop
Sunday 21st December
Bereavement support every Tuesday
Citizens’ Advice and Police surgery
on first Tuesdays
Parish Nurse Clinic on third Tuesdays
Tuesday
(During
term time)
6.00 – 7.00 pm Tuesday Mix
(for those in school years 3 – 6)
at St Justus’ Church
Friday
6.00 pm
- - FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT - 8.00 am
President and Address: fr John Thackray
Server:
Ray Cowley
Choir practice
Epistle:
Reader:
Gospel:
7.30 pm Bell practice at St Margaret's
Saturday
Holy Communion (BCP)
at St Margaret’s
10.00 am Table Top Sales
10.30 am
Parish Administrator
St Margaret's Church
St Margaret's Street
Rochester
ME1 1UJ
First reading: 2 Samuel 7: 1 – 11, 16
Reader:
Nicky Timlick
Psalm:
Psalm 89: 1 – 4, 19 – 26
Reader
Chris Harlow
Second Reading:
Romans 16: 25 – 27
Reader:
Pat Price
Gospel:
Luke 1: 26 – 38
Jayne Pearson
Office telephone No: 01634 848900
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.parishofrochester.org.uk/
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/RochesterClusterOfChurches
Dorothy Houckham
Kevin Russell
Parish Nurse
Angela Cornell
Choir Director
Mary Jeffreys
Deputy Churchwardens Dolly Cowley
Pat Featherstone
Geoff Long
Stuart Pearson
Churchwardens
Pam Moss
Margaret Narborough
Safeguarding Officers
Honorary Assistant Priest
Parish Communion at St Peter’s
President, Address and Ministry;
Rev’d Pam
Server:
Jayne Vousden
Intercessor:
Peter Cornell
Lay Assistants:
Dorothy Houckham
Christine Seth Smith
Parish Directory….
St Peter's Church
(The Parish Centre)
Delce Road
Rochester
ME1 2EH
Philippians 4: 4 – 7
Jenny Partington
John 1: 19 – 28
Welcomers: Miriam Evans, June Woods
6.30 pm
Parish Carol Service
by candlelight
at St Margaret’s
Leader: Rev’d Pam
Tuesday, 23rd December
The Rev’d Jacqui Henry
Curate
The Rev’d Pam Alexander
Rev’d Pam takes Friday as her usual day off.
Items for inclusion in the notices should be sent, by
Wednesday, to Alan Moss on 721886 or by e-mail
to [email protected]
8.00 am Morning Prayer and…
9.15 am Holy Communion at St Peter’s
Making Christingles
Please come to St Peter’s at 11.00 am and
help to assemble the Christingles ready for
the Service on Christmas Eve.
Sunday 28th December
Services for
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Wednesday
- - FIRST SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS - -
CHRISTMAS EVE
8.00 am
4.00 pm
Holy Communion (BCP)
at St Margaret’s
Nativity and Christingle
Service at St Peter’s
President and Address:
Rev’d Pam
Leader:
fr John Thackray
Jayne Vousden
Server:
11.30 pm
Midnight Mass of the
Nativity at St Margaret’s
President and Address
Rev’d Pam
Ministry:
Rev’d Jacqui
Server:
Jayne Vousden
Intercessor:
Calvin Beedle
Lay Assistants:
Pam Moss,
Margaret Narborough
Epistle:
Reader:
Gospel:
Thursday
President:
Address and Ministry:
Server:
Intercessor:
Lay Assistants:
8.00 am
Holy Communion (BCP)
at St Margaret’s
President and Address:
Server:
Epistle:
Reader:
Gospel:
10.00 am
Rev’d Pam
Ray Shuter
Rev’d Jacqui
Calvin Beedle
Miriam Evans
Mary Pearce
Julia Hawkins,
Ray Shuter
First reading: 1 Corinthians 1: 26 - 29
Reader:
Jean East
Gospel:
Matthew 2: 13 - 18
Welcomers:
Monica Aldridge,
John Portman, Kevin Russell
Alan Moss, John Portman
CHRISTMAS DAY
Matthew 1: 18 – 25
Family Communion at St Margaret’s
10.30 am
First reading: Isaiah 52: 7 – 10
Reader:
Geoff Long
Psalm:
Psalm 98
Reader
Mary Jeffreys
Second Reading:
Hebrews 1: 1 – 4 [5 – 12]
Reader:
Peter Cornell
Gospel:
John 1: 1 – 14
Welcomers:
Galatians 4: 1 – 7
No Cluster Evening Service
Monday 29
December
th
Coming soon
It’s the Parish…..
Hebrews 1: 1 – 12
Alan Moss
John 1: 1 – 14
Parish Communion at St Peter’s
President, Address and Ministry;
Rev’d Jacqui
Server:
Miriam Evans
Intercessor:
Margaret Narborough
Lay Assistants: Chris Harlow, Pat Price
First Reading:
Hebrews 1: 1 – 4 [5 – 12]
Reader:
To be announced
Gospel:
John 1: 1 – 14
4.00 pm at the Parish Centre
Bring and share and have fun!
Thursday
st
1 January
New Year’s Day
Organ Concert
featuring
Laurence Long (Royal College of Music)
and Thomas Fligge (Walsum).
3.00 pm at St Margaret’s.
Admission free (retiring collection)
Our new Vicar
Parish Prayer Diary
The Churchwardens are delighted to announce the
appointment of the Rev’d Dr Joel Love as the new Vicar
of this parish. For more information about the appointment please see church notice boards.
In this life we cannot do great things, only small
things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Audrey Myers
The 9.15 am Service of Holy Communion on Tuesday
th
30 December will take the form of a Service in memory
of Audrey Myers, for many years an active member of
this congregation, who died recently in a nursing home in
Cheltenham. The Service will be led by Rev’d Jacqui.
Pray for current world situations and for :Sun
Mary and our church choir
All at the Carol Service this evening
The work of the RNLI
Mon
Doctors and staff at the Delce Medical Centre
People with physical disabilities
The Mission to Seafarers
Tue
Our friends in Walsum
Those who are bedridden or in hospital
Peace throughout the world
Wed
Families at the Christingle Service this afternoon
All at the Midnight Service
Christians throughout the world
Thur
HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you all
Your families and friends
Christians unable to celebrate today
Fri
Hospital chaplains
Hospital staff on duty over Christmas
That all people respect each other’s religions
and way of life
Sat
The Rev’d Dr Joel Love – our new Vicar
Prison Chaplains
Inmates and staff at Rochester’s prisons
Church Christmas cards...
last day Sunday 21st December
st
Today, Sunday 21 December, is the last day on which
Christmas cards for members of the congregation may
be left in church. We would ask that:
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You only put cards in the box for those whom
you expect to be in church over the Christmas
period.
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Envelopes are clearly marked with both the
Christian and surname of the recipient.
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You take out any cards which are addressed to
you.
Any cards remaining in church after Christmas may not
be delivered.
Children’s Society Christmas candles
Please pick up from church a cardboard Christmas
candle, use it to collect your loose change and bring it
back to church at Christmas. The money so collected
will be donated to The Children’s Society
Free mini-bus outings
The next free mini-bus outing will be on
th
Friday 9 January. Please contact the
Parish Office if you would like to reserve a place.
Parish Prayer Chain
If you have an urgent request for prayer please
leave a message and you, or the person about
whom you are concerned, will be prayed for daily
for three weeks by the people who constitute the
Parish Prayer Chain.
We remember those who are sick or in distress, and
those who care for them, especially:
fr Stuart Aitken, Reanne Armstrong, Lynn and
Martin Bament, Ian and Jean Burden, Jillian Gallagher,
David Hinks, Ron Plowman, Ailsa Stone, Michelle
Thompson, Lesley and Primrose. Also Sam, Denis and
baby Gabriel.
….and all those who have died, their families and
friends, especially:
Barry Biddiss, Gary Biddiss, Averil Gower,
Audrey Myers, Joyce Prescott and Nigel Wilder.
May they rest in peace and rise in glory

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